When France decided to ramp up its bombing of ISIS, under the cover of the Paris terror attacks, there was speculation that it might lead to worse civilian deaths and thus more recruits for ISIS.
Middle East Monitor states that 28 children were just killed by a French air force attack on a primary school in Mosul, according to an Iraqi Brigadier-General.
“The French aircraft bombed Fatima Zahra Primary School on Wednesday,” explained Brigadier-General Thanon Sabawi. “The attack killed 28 children and wounded five others.”
However, other reports by the Middle East Eye suggest that this might just be a hoax:
Middle East Eye later established that the source was in fact a tweet put out by German news channel Deustche Welle on their Arabic feed.
Deustche Welle told MEE that they were informed on Wednesday France had bombed the school in Mosul. They said their source was an Iraqi military source who they did not name.
However, a local in Mosul told MEE on condition of anonymity that France had not bombed a school in Mosul.
Numerous journalists have since said the rumour was false, including Al Jazeera Arabic’s Amer al-Kubaisi, who wrote on Facebook: “Reports of the killing of children in Mosul as a result of French bombing are incorrect. This did not happen – no school was bombed. Such reports must be treated with utmost caution. People’s lives are not a game. People should not make them into a political game.”
France certainly did bomb the region:
“At 19:30 French time [21:30 local time] four Rafale fighter jets from an aircraft carrier stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, along with some US aircraft, dropped 20 bombs on an IS command centre [in Mosul],” a spokesperson said for the French Defense Ministry.
Sources: Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye
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